Day: July 7, 2021

His Majesty King Abdullah, in a phone call on Wednesday with Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades, discussed bilateral ties and means to bolster cooperation in all areas.

King Abdullah commended the outputs of the strategic inter-agency dialogue session held recently between the two countries in Cyprus, expressing Jordan’s keenness to expand cooperation with Cyprus and Greece within the trilateral framework.

The call also covered regional developments, foremost of which is the Palestinian cause, with His Majesty reaffirming that achieving stability in the Middle East is not possible without reaching just and comprehensive peace between the Palestinians and the Israelis, on the basis of the two-state solution, which would guarantee the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 4 June 1967 lines, with East Jerusalem as its capital.

Source: Jordan News Agency

His Majesty King Abdullah is scheduled to commence his official visit to Washington, DC, with a meeting with US President Joe Biden at the White House, on 19 July.

During the visit, King Abdullah will be accompanied by Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Al Hussein bin Abdullah II.

His Majesty’s meeting with the US president, the first for an Arab leader with President Biden since his election, will cover the strategic ties between Jordan and the United States and means of bolstering them across several sectors, as well as the latest regional developments.

Also during the visit, the King will meet with senior administration officials; Congress leadership; members of the Senate Armed Services, Foreign Relations, and Appropriations committees; and members of the Foreign Affairs Committee and the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee at the House of Representatives, as well as US think tanks.

The visit comes on the heels of ongoing Jordanian diplomatic efforts led by His Majesty, including a meeting with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and participation in the fourth trilateral Jordanian-Egyptian-Iraqi summit in Baghdad.

Source: Jordan News Agency

HRH Prince Faisal Bin Al Hussein, the Regent, visited the tomb of the late King Talal on the 49th anniversary of his death on Wednesday.

Prince Faisal recited verses from the Koran and laid a wreath at the tomb.

Several senior civic and military officials also visited the tomb to pay their respect.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Director of the Public Security Directorate (PSD) Maj. Gen. Hussein Hawatmeh and South Korean Ambassador to Jordan, Lee Jae-wan, on Wednesday discussed ways to enhance various aspects of cooperation between the two public security agencies in the two friendly countries.

Hawatmeh lauded the mutual cooperation in many police, security and training fields and the exchange of expertise.

He underlined the importance of this meeting in enhancing this fruitful cooperation, which provides an opportunity to check on security and police expertise best practices, openness to security services in various countries of the world, exchange successful and advanced expertise, introduce them into our security system, and keep abreast with developments in the fields of maintaining security, combating crime and enhancing capabilities.

The Korean ambassador commended the advanced position of the PSD at regional and international levels.

He said that the PSD achievements have enabled it to face all challenges and incidents, adding that the Korean government is keen on enhancing ways of cooperation with the Jordan’s PSD in various fields.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordan’s foreign ministry Wednesday inveighed against the Israeli occupation forces’ demolition of Palestinian-owned homes in the occupied West Bank.

Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Dhaifallah Fayez said in a statement demolishing homes, appropriating lands and the displacement of people are all violations of international law that run counter to Israel’s commitments, as the occupier, toward the occupied Palestinians.

The policy of settlement expansion adopted by Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories, whether through land appropriation, displacement or building settler units, is illegal and undermines the effort to realise peace and materialise the two-state solution as per the international law.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Jordan’s foreign ministry Wednesday reiterated the water security of Sudan and Egypt is “part and parcel” of the wider Arab national security, expressing full support for Cairo and Khartoum.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates emphasised in a statement the need to realise a solution based on negotiations over Ethiopia’s Renaissance Dam in a way that would guarantee the right of all parties to the Nile River.

It warned of unilateral actions and the filling of the Dam without an agreement based on the international law.

Cairo and Khartoum’s effort to resolve the issue through negotiations reflect their commitment to share the Nile River fairly to eschew tension and promote cooperation.

Source: Jordan News Agency

President of Iraq Barham Salih Wednesday warned against threats from the Daesh organisation to northern Iraq.

“We must be vigilant and careful of remnants of the Daesh terrorist organisatoin that seeks to destabilise security and stability from time to time.” said salih in a meeting with Iraqis from the northern parts of the country.

He said the country has no other option other than fighting terror through promoting coexistence, highlighting that Daesh is trying to sew discord between different ethnic groups.

Source: Jordan News Agency

Minister of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Ahmad Hanandeh, underscored that digital transformation is a catalyst for economic and social development in Jordan.

Hanandeh made the remarks during a virtual dialogue session on Wednesday, organized by the TechWadi non-profit organization, on the digital and technology landscape in the Kingdom, with the participation of the CEO of the American Chamber of Commerce (AmCham), Rose Alissi?.

The minister stressed the government’s commitment to develop, among Jordanian youth, digital skills that are compatible with the future requirements of the labor market through a number of programs and projects supervised by the Ministry.

According to a statement by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship, Hanandeh pointed out that digital transformation leads to finding solutions for many financial, agricultural, industrial, health care, security services and others issues, and developing new business models that ‘could not be developed in isolation from digital transformation and modern technologies.’

Jordan, he added, has been able to reach advanced stages in the field of digital economy and entrepreneurship compared to countries in the Middle East and North Africa, especially in digital infrastructure if measured by the rate of access to Internet services and the quality of the service provided. He indicated that the Kingdom has surpassed the rest of the countries in the region based on the number of entrepreneurs in Jordan in comparison with the rest of the region, which is more than twofold of the average for the region.

He stated that the Jordanian government, through the Ministry of Digital Economy and Entrepreneurship and in cooperation with all concerned parties, supports Jordanian startups and works to attract investments, as well as help them address the post-Covid-19 pandemic challenges. He said the government provided numerous programs and initiatives during the pandemic to enable Jordanian entrepreneurial companies to continue operations.

The ministry, he pointed out, is also committed, through its continuous activities, to network these companies with investors, investment funds and relevant parties on the local, Arab, and international arenas, to ensure these companies expand and access the funding needed for their development.

AmCham CEO Alissi pointed to the Chamber’s great role over the past years to support entrepreneurial projects through its Silicon Valley Matchmaking Program, in cooperation with the Ministry of Digital Economy, which aims to link Jordanian entrepreneurial companies with their counterparts of entrepreneurs and financiers in the Silicon Valley, and enables participants to access markets, obtain financing and exchange knowledge in cooperation with its strategic partner, TechWadi.

Source: Jordan News Agency

UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Cultural Heritage , President of Petra National Trust (PNT) and President of the Association of the World Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS Jordan), Princess Dana Firas, lauded UNESCO’s role and efforts in preserving cultural heritage.

In a meeting with UNESCO Representative in Jordan, Min Jeong Kim, on Wednesday, Her Highness discussed ways to enhance PNT’s and ICOMOS’s cooperation with UNESCO, stressing the need to make education in the heritage and culture fields a priority at the national and regional levels.

For her part, Kim praised Princess Dana’s “effective” role in protecting cultural heritage locally and internationally, lauding efforts of PNT and ICOMOS Jordan in developing the heritage and cultural scene.

To achieve related goals, Princess Dana and Kim agreed on the need to activate joint cooperation in protection for archeological sites and spread the culture of preserving cultural heritage through education and specialized training.

Source: Jordan News Agency